online fundraising from Getting started: a guide for churches and charities

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1 online fundraising from Getting started: a guide for churches and charities

2 Contents Welcome to give.net Why use give.net? How does it work? How to use give.net Get started The next steps Making the most of give.net

3 Welcome to As a registered Stewardship recipient, you now have full access to our online fundraising website: give.net online fundraising from Stewardship We want to make it as easy as possible for churches and charities to maximise this effective way to raise money. As more people choose to give online, making full use of give.net can offer you a major additional stream of income. Who are Stewardship? We help people give. Since 1906 Stewardship has provided advice, guidance, inspiration and practical tools to make it easy for people to give easily and tax effectively. In 2012, Stewardship created give.net to make it even easier for people to give to churches and charities online. Our numbers churches, secular and Christian charities registered is the amount we reclaim in Gift Aid every year is what we distribute to charitable causes every year is the average amount raised on a give.net fundraising page Climbing

4 Why use give.net? 100% not-for-profit We re a charity too so there are no profits at the end of the year. Anything left goes straight back into supporting our charitable activities. We are constantly reviewing our costs to ensure that they are as low as possible. We reclaim Gift Aid We claim Gift Aid automatically, on a weekly basis, which ensures that reclaimed tax reaches you as soon as possible (usually between six to eight weeks). Easy to use reporting Stay up to date with how much you ve raised and how successful your campaigns have been. Easily accessed reports allow you to keep track of how much you have raised online. View them online and download to Excel or other software to help with your accounting, or in order to create mailings to supporters. Lots of support and advice Our easy to use website offers all the answers you need to start using give.net. If you do get stumped along the way, our team is full of experts to answer any questions you have. Mountaineering Walking Dinner Parties

5 How does it work? Register with Stewardship Create your donation and fundraising pages Tell your supporters Watch the funds come in!

6 How to use give.net Create your donation page Donation pages offer a permanent page for your supporters to access whenever they wish to support your cause. Make a link to your donation page from your website to provide your supporters with secure and easy online giving. Create a fundraising page Fundraising pages can be created for individual fundraising events and short-term projects that your church or charity are involved in. Include information about the event or project, a few pictures, your fundraising target, and then share it amongst your supporters. Encourage your supporters to create a fundraising page Encourage your supporters to create their own give.net fundraising pages to raise money for your church or charity. Fundraising pages can be personalised and shared amongst friends and family. They are a great way to increase giving to support your cause. Birthdays Skydive Car wash

7 Give.net is proving a great tool for enabling A Rocha s supporters to raise money for us online. It s so quick and simple for us to create donation and fundraising pages too. What s more, there s no monthly service charge and the small admin fees support the wonderful work of Stewardship! A Rocha UK

8 Get started Add your logo and profile information to your recipient account Visit stewardship.org.uk and click on the log in button, located near the top right of the Stewardship website. Enter your username and password (please note that your username and password are case sensitive). Click on the tab account details located on the grey bar. Then click on the tab profile. On this page you can upload your logo and edit any other profile information. Once uploaded, click save at the bottom of the page. Updates that you make via the Stewardship website will be automatically uploaded to your give.net profile. Cycle ride Juggling Running

9 The next steps How to log in to give.net Click on the log in button, located near the top right of the give.net website. Enter your username and password as you would to log in to your online Stewardship account. Select the option to set up a donation or a fundraising page. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete your page. Trekking Wedding Coffee Morning

10 Making the most of give.net How to promote your give.net pages on your website To help promote your give.net pages, download one of our free ready-to-use donate now buttons to add to your website. Visit give.net/pages/for-charities/web-resources and follow the easy steps. Give.net: The numbers Thanking your supporters We will automatically send a thank you message to those who support your cause with give.net. You can access a full list of your give.net supporters by logging in to your account via stewardship.org.uk The A supporter s gift Gift Aid Admin (3% of total) Card processing* Your charity receives example From an original donation of 10.00, your charity will receive from Stewardship. Fees Just of donations. That s it. No set up fee. No monthly fees and no hidden charges. Typically, just of donations goes to help pay our bills, but we re a charity too, so there are no profits at the end of the year. * There are no card processing fees for donations made using debit cards. If the giver makes a donation using a credit card, their card provider will charge a fee of 1% (2% for company cards).

11 It took us less than ten minutes to set up our first fundraising page and within an hour the first donation was made. Give.net allowed us to promote our charity online and via social media. This has provided us with more exposure to new supporters. Transform Work UK

12 Support For further support, access our list of FAQs at or contact us via at Give.net is the new online fundraising website from Stewardship, a registered charity (234714) serving the church since 1906